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CHAP. 48. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
the assessable property of said county, for the use of Peggy Walker,
Nancy Walker and Richard Walker, the sum of thirty dollars
to each of them, which said sums of money, when collected, shall
be paid over annually by the collector of said county to such person
as the judges of the orphans court of said county shall direct. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1818.
* 1816, ch. 244. |
CHAP. XLIX.
A Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to provide for the Education
of Poor Children in Kent, Talbot, Cecil, Anne-Arundel,
and
Montgomery Counties. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol.
533. |
Property in Kent
not assessed to
300 dolls. to be
empt from tax. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the property of no person, lying and being in Kent county, shall
be liable to be taxed for the purposes mentioned in the act, entitled,
An act to provide for the education of poor children in Kent, Talbot,
Cecil, Anne-Arundel and Montgomery counties, unless the
assessable property of such person, lying in Kent county, shall be
assessed to the amount of three hundred dollars, any provisions in
the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1818. |
CHAP. L.
An Act for the relief of Priscilla Nicholls, of Montgomery County.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 534.
A Supplement 1818, ch. 16. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of Priscilla Nicholls, of Montgomery county, that at a court
of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, held
on the second Monday in January eighteen hundred and fourteen,
a certain negro by the name of Ned, then a slave for a term of
years to the said Priscilla Nicholls, and having six years to serve,
was presented, indicted, and found guilty of felony, and sentenced
to labour in the penitentiary for the term of seven years; that no
valuation has ever been made of said negro Ned, agreeably to the
act of assembly in such cases provided; therefore, |
| Negro to be valued. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the judges of Baltimore county court, at their next term, be and
they are hereby required to value the said negro Ned, and that the
amount be assessed and paid to the said Priscilla Nicholls, in the
manner provided by law in similar cases of conviction. |
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Passed Jan. 15, 1818. |
CHAP. LI.
An Act relating to Election Districts in the City of Baltimore.
Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 534. |
Number of districts
to be equal
to wards. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the number and limits of election districts in the city of Baltimore
shall always be the same as the wards therein.
By 1817, ch. 148, the city of Baltimore
to be divided into twelve wards, &c. |
If confirmed to be
part of constitution. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall
be confirmed by
the general assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the
first session after such new election, as the constitution and form
of government directs, that in such case this act shall be taken and
considered, and shall constitute and be valid, as part of the said
constitution and form of government, to all intents and purposes,
any thing in the said constitution and form of government contained
to the contrary notwithstanding.
This act was confirmed by 1818, ch. 87. |
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